On New Year’s Day last week, Mio hosted a little party for Dan and I and her doll friends using her new kitchen. We also let her play with her cupcake set (which our friend Katie got for her last year) and she was super excited to bake cupcakes just like Mama! She knew exactly what to do because she’s always watching me closely while I’m baking.

Mio was so excited to "bake" her own cupcakes!
Taking the cupcakes out of the oven. She even wore her oven mitt and said “Acchi-cchi!” (Japanese sound for when something is hot to touch.)

 

Putting frosting and candles on the cupcakes.
Putting frosting and candles on the cupcakes.

 

Giving everyone their treats.
She made sure everyone got a cupcake. (Poor girl scratched herself in her sleep so there’s a scratch next to her nose. Thankfully, it’s already healed and disappeared!)

 

Decorating the cupcakes.
I helped Mio decorate the cupcakes. By the way, this cupcake set by Melissa & Doug is awesome! It comes with a cupcake pan, removable “frosting” and dry erase “icing” markers that you can draw on the cupcakes with. And it all wipes clean when you are done.

 

Daddy and Mio admiring the cupcakes.
Daddy and Mio admiring the cupcakes.

 

Mio surrounded by cupcakes!
Mio was so happy with her cupcakes!

 

Tea time with Daddy
Dan teaching Mio how to properly drink tea (pinky up! lol).

 

A video that I took during Mio’s “party”:


 

It was so sweet to see how much Mio loved playing with the cupcakes along with her kitchen. She’s definitely a dessert lover — she’s so quick to spot them in a book or at a restaurant, and will point and says “kei-ki” (her way of saying “cake”) obsessively. A girl after my own heart! ♥